Join us at “Tell Me About My Country,” a cultural heritage festival and exhibition held under the Patronage of Her Royal Highness Princess Basma Bint Talal. Bring the whole family to the second annual cultural heritage festival to experience first-hand the rich value and variety of Jordanian traditions!

This four-day day festival will be open to the public free of charge thanks to our sponsors the Government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), and the Marriott Hotel. An exhibition of cultural projects created by Jordanian youth from six governorates around Jordan will include videos, photography, and audio. The event will also include demonstrations by artisans from around the Kingdom of their local crafts, such as traditional dance and music, shrak and taboun, mosaics, sand bottles, pottery, and numerous other handicrafts.



This festival is part of a larger project, “Foundations for a Strong Future: Youth in Jordan and Lebanon Promote Cultural Heritage,” that aims to instill pride in cultural heritage in Jordanian youth. With funding from the European Union/Euromed Heritage Programme IV, the project was implemented by Mercy Corps with its local partners The Jordan Museum and Princess Basma Youth Resource Center.



The aim of the project “Foundations for a Strong Future” is to support cultural heritage as one aspect of “public wealth” that should be collectively celebrated and protected, even by young people. The project wants to promote a message of ownership at the local level through a number of tools, among them public events. National museums and heritage sites in Jordan (and Lebanon) are meant to become hubs for education, celebration of cultural heritage, and knowledge dissemination.

April 1st: 3pm to 7pm